Observations 

Posted on June 8, 2015 by eteal

a day of observances,

Yet what are we seeing –

Looking back or looking forward.

Dare we serve what we actually see?

Can I truly love You, and you truly love me?

  
This is the truest sight, this is how we serve.

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The view from above 

Posted on June 7, 2015 by eteal

looking down on the coffee table,

I view

The yin and yang of sisterhood grazing on a home grown patch of eden.

Inner doors open – sharing purr poses.

  
As if realizing Eden is here in this moment,

One sat up straight. And looked forward toward the sun.

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Hurrying 

Posted on June 4, 2015 by eteal

Her heels went clickity clickity across the sanctuary floor,

A red leash looped over her wrist, as she embraced blueprints and clipboards.

He scurrying  behind as best he could…

She was hurrying on important business…

He understood…. Or would if she stopped long enough for him to stand.

 Still, he longed for her arms to be empty, and hold Him again.

  

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Peace

Posted on June 3, 2015 by eteal

Peace, the color of warm hot cocoa,

Or caramel…

Golden earth capable of flight..

Thank you for landing here.

thank You for landing near me.

  

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Textbook 

Posted on June 2, 2015 by eteal

I am the history of love,

No pedigree needed….

A composition of all the purrs that came before,

I arrived at your door,

Ready to soften the edges of a harsh world.

  

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Love

Posted on June 2, 2015 by eteal

i fell in love (again) today.

It was only for a moment.

It will be forever.

Our eyes met.

My heart melted.

Are you a Landseer? I asked.

We were still waiting on the curb for the light to change.

(Love is like that…it stops time…it is all there is.)

NO, she’s a Border Collie Saint Bernard cross 

                 called the other end of the extended leash, striding back to us, crossly.

She’s lovely.  I said.

A smile bloomed on the face of the woman with the leash.

Shared love.

The light changed to green, and three astride 

we stepped off the curb together.

Together for a moment….

Just might be salvation. 

Love is like that.

  

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Princesses & peas

Posted on May 31, 2015 by eteal

Her name is not anybody’s, for she was a shy princess with a loud voice.

She is, however, not woebegone,

Winifred loves to pose!

                                        “I am not a poser!”

I know you did not read all those books.

                                         “That would be your story, not mine.””

  
I sleep on them.

Sweet dreams, may they be filled with musical fairy tales of love.

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Balance 

Posted on May 30, 2015 by eteal

In the field are two small horses.

Horses no bigger than sheep.

One is black. One is white.

They stand like a yin yang symbol against the green green grasses.

stop saying nothing is ever black or white. Here is proof.

The equivocation is stagnation!

And we must move as well as graze.

Both are good.  And good is Good!

Enough with exquisite, precious, and invaluable……

Value the Essential Good.

Graze and run.  Run and graze.  And love your companions in the pasture.

We are not all sheep.
   

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Hogs and pigs

Posted on May 29, 2015 by eteal

“what are you doing there?”

“What are you doing here?”

The ground hog continued to graze, 

“I was just surprised that’s all…..

“I have never seen one of you.”

(You look like an overgrown guinea pig! I thought to myself…careful not to say it outloud……at the risk of being rude, or misunderstood. Neither are swine.)

Don’t be daft… Never seen one of You?  That is all that one can see. You.

  

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falling

Posted on May 27, 2015 by eteal

the hawk’s claw opened

and

down

to the earth fell the kitten.

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the dog

picked her up and carried her ,

placing her gently before

the human.

the human picked up the kitten,

(half way between earth and sky,)

she lay limp cradled in human hands.

puncture wounds from sharp claws –

neck snapped.

no more purrs.

oh! small feral being,

i too am falling –

why do i mourn your loss of breath more than the hawks loss of breakfast?

and the dog still wants to play.

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